Neil Levy

Consciousness and Moral Responsibility

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Produktbeschreibung

Neil Levy presents a new theory of freedom and responsibility. He defends a particular account of consciousness¿the global workspace view¿and argues that consciousness plays an especially important role in action. There are good reasons to think that the na¿ assumption, that consciousness is needed for moral responsibility, is in fact true.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 147mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780198704638
• ISBN-10: 0198704631
• Artikelnr.: 39558147

Autorenporträt

Associate Professor Neil Levy is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Australia, as well as director of research at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, University of Oxford. He works on the philosophy of agency and ethical issues in neuroscience, as well as related areas, and has published extensively on these topics. He is the author of Neuroethics (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Hard Luck (Oxford University Press, 2011) among other books and edits the journal Neuroethics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: Does Consciousness Matter?
2: The Consciousness Thesis
3: The Global Workspace
4: What Does Consciousness Do?
5: Consciousness and the real self
6: Consciousness and control
Concluding thoughts
References
Index